Re: new feature request: highlights on scoring matches

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> Actually, I think eudora has the ability to color-code stuff based on
> expression.  That might be a easier way to pull it off.  Don't make it
> tied to scoring at all but make a general "highlight" set of
> expressions and face changes.  Then, the scoring regexps could be
> added to the more generic highlighting set if desired as well.

Hm...  These expressions would do nothing but highlight regions in
the summary buffer?  Yes, and then the scoring code could add more of
these matches to the mechanism, like you say.  Yes, that sounds a lot
cleaner than hacking up something in the scoring code itself.

Anyone want to take a whack at doing functionality for highlighting
regexps in the summary buffer?  It would probably make sense to do
this after the lines have been generated.

On the other hand, if the score rule is, say "^hello" on Subject,
just adding that to a list of highlighting regexps and running it
over the buffer won't match anything.  And there'll be misleading
matches between, say, Subject and From as displayed.

No, perhaps it isn't as simple as that.  The highlighting would have
to be applied before the strings are entered into the buffer.  That
could be done by transforming a copy of the header structure before
it is inserted into the buffer...

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